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The grand question resolved, what we must do to be saved instructions for a…
The grand question resolved, what we must do to be saved instructions for a holy life / by the late Reverend Divine, Mr. Richard Baxter ; recommended to the bookseller a few days before his death to be immediately printed for the good of souls.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
XIV. Take heed of fPride and Self-conceitedness in Religion: If once you over-value your own understandings, your crude Conceptions and gross Mistakes will delight you as some supernatural light: And instead of having compassion on the Weak, you will be unruly and despisers of your Guides, and censorious contemners of all that differ from you; and persecutors of them if you have Power; and will think all intolerable, that take you not as Oracles, and your words as Law. Forget not that the Church hath always suffered by censorious, unruly Professors on the one Hand, (and O what Divisions and Scandals have they caused!) as well as by the Profane and Persecutors on the other. Take need of both: And when Contentions are afoot, be quiet and silent, and not too forward; and keep up a Zeal for Love and Peace.
XIV. Take heed of fPride and Self-conceitedness in Religion: If once you over-value your own understandings, your crude Conceptions and gross Mistakes will delight you as some supernatural light: And instead of having compassion on the Weak, you will be unruly and despisers of your Guides, and censorious contemners of all that differ from you; and persecutors of them if you have Power; and will think all intolerable, that take you not as Oracles, and your words as Law. Forget not that the Church hath always suffered by censorious, unruly Professors on the one Hand, (and O what Divisions and Scandals have they caused!) as well as by the Prophane and Persecucutors on the other. Take need of both: And when Contentions are afoot, be quiet and silent, and not too forward; and keep up a Zeal for Love and Peace.
- f1 Tim. 3. 6. Col. […] 18. 1 Cor. 8. 1. 1 Cor. 4. 6. 1 Tim. 6. 4. 1 Pet. 5. 5. Jam. 3. 1, 17.